Cricket Special Report: Pakistani bowler, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan’s desperation not paying off
Fast bowler Rana Naved-ul-Hasan is showing utmost desperation to make his comeback. He is trying to meet up with Chairman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 Cricket Board (PCB) regarding other senior players such as Mohammad Yousuf and Shoaib Malik.
Rana was banned alongside other team-mates on the tour of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 in 2009-10. Besides getting a ban of 12 months, he also had to pay off a fine of Rs 2 millions. All other banned players have already met with the PCB and have gotten their bans revoked or reduced. Both Malik and Yousuf, who were banned, have been recalled to the Pakistan side as well.
The 32 year old right-arm fast bowler generates a steady pace with late swing. Even though, he has a bowling average of 27.68 and is targeted by many batsmen in the lights of Mohammad Sami, Mohammad Aamir, Mohammad Asif and Umar Gul, Rana is still a genuine strike bowler for Pakistan. The right-arm swing bowler is known for his swing in dippers and yorkers. He also has a good control over changing the pace of the ball. Rana specialises in troubling the lower order. He is known to be a One day International (ODI) specialist rather than being a test expert. Since in the lights of other test bowlers Sami, Asif, Gul and Shoaib Aktar, he is always over shadowed and hence, has a fewer appearances in test cricket.
However, the ODI specialist with 110 wickets has made a mark in county cricket. Since June 2005, Rana plays for English county cricket for Sussex, where the youngster has formed a successful partnership with fellow national team-mate and veteran leg-spinner Mushtaq Ahmed. He has also done well with the bat in county cricket, scored a match winning 139 against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Middlesex-c817. This is no surprise if one reviews Rana’s first class batting career, where he has scored 3 centuries.
However, on 12th September 2007, Rana dislocated his shoulder at http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yorkshire-c867 signing a deal of two years. With his proven credentials at first class, county, and international cricket, first as a right-arm fast swing bowler and secondly, as a bowling all-rounder. Rana is trying his level best to make a comeback.
He has also tried getting an appointment with the PCB by going to the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore. His several trips to the stadium have been unsuccessful. The right-arm fast bowler wants to meet up with chairperson before he leaves for England, otherwise his appeal to revoke his ban would be postponed for another month or so. “I am getting desperate now because if the PCB chairman goes abroad once again my appeal against the ban will be left pending for another month or so,” he told press on 14th August, 2010.
The appellate tribunal headed by retired Justice http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahid-Afridi-c2482, Kamran and Umar Akmal were also part of the banned and fined fraternity, but their appeal were revised and were given another chance to play for the national side.
Rana’s career has suffered a great deal due to internal politics within the PCB. The 32-year old all-rounder is ageing and will eventually run out of time to make any contribution at the national level for his country. As Rana and former skipper Younis Khan are yet to be given any sort of consideration or any decision to be taken about their future or career to come. Rana has shown utmost desperation and willingness to make a comeback. In addition, he has also agreed to admit and apologize for what so ever wrong he did in the tour of Australia.
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